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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-03-18

ToDDS Il STANLEY MILL FURNISHING CO.,
M Manufacturers Of and dealers in every description
Of Mill Furnishings. Building of Roller
Mills a Specially Office, No. Yl7 North Sec.
ond street.
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RoHAN BROS. BOILER MFG CO.,
Of Boiler and Sheet Iron Work, for
Mills and Steamboats,. Nos. HOO II2O Collins
street.
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Established 1916. Incorporated 1872,
PLANT SEED COMPANY.
ALFRED PLANT, Pres't.
Importers and wholesale and retail dealers in
Garden. Grass. Field and Tree Seeds. Nos
6l2 and 814 Nerth Fourth street.
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4. A. sPEEh. GEO p JONES'
sPERR, JONES h CO.,
Manufacturers Of Fine Machinery Oils, Gresses
Etc. Nos. 70S and ITO North Main street,
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CHINA'S WEST POINT.
How Military Cadets are Educated in the
FIowery Kingdom.

How Military Cadets are Educated in the
FIowery Kingdom.
Nearly three years ago the Chinese
Government, at the instigatiOn of Ii
Hung Chang, decided to establish an
academy for forming staff of we'll
instructed native officers. With this
object the first body of Chinese cadets
were brought together and installed in
the office of the admiralty at Tien-Tsin.
This was in March, 1885. and very soon
afterward the construction of sepa-
rate building for them was commenced.
This is now completed, and it is to serve
as the model of similar buildings, one
of which is to be erected in the capital
of each of the eighteen provinces. The
academy of Tien-Tsin is situated on the
Peiho, and occupies a space of more
than six hundred square yards. 1t Is
excellently adapted to the requirements
of such Il building, while its architect
ural appearance is in harmony with
the local surroundings Besides large
number of reception and dining rooms
and the dormitorieS, there are four
great lecture halls. two large saloons,
room for military games, another for
photographed work, and 4 third for
printing, two chemistry halls, and an
apartment for drawing. The building
is capable of accommodating three
hundred students and the administra-
tive staff. On wide plain adjoining
the building are encamped under tents
considerable body of infantry and
artillery. At the head of the corps OF
the cadets is Chinese officer, the
Taotai Yang Tsung Pau. His colleague
is, however. Major PAUL., of the Ger
man artillery. The masters and in
structorS are also foreign officers,
chiefly Germans, and the system of
training is borrowed from the German.
The sons of the upper classes are alone
admitted between the ages of fourteen
and fifteen. At first this rule was not
observed, and there was one instance
of cadet being rs old as thirty-tive.
Each student is expected to remain
four years in the general class, where
he is taught Chinese, writing, foreign
languages. geography and natural
science After the termination of this
preliminary course he is transferred
FOR a year to one of the school COM
panics attached to the corps. He then
serves for a year with the regular
army, and finally returns to the
military school for years instruction
in military science. After passing
his examination the cadet receives his
commission and joins one of the regi-
ments of the Chinese army Chicago
Times.
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BUTTER FOR EXPORT.
That Used by Uncle Sam Must Keep Sweet

Tor lfirce 1earSs
zone hundred thousand pounds of
butter in air tight packages. is Whist
Uncle Sans navy requires every year,"
said an old butter packer. "a special tin
package is used," he added, (which is
Theoretically sealed, either by soldering.
or by employing machine constructed
for the purpose. and we are obliged to
guarantee that the butter will keep
sweet for three years. We use sim
liar package for all butter exported to
the tropics. 1t is round tin can.
which is filled from the bottom and
sealed by machine. 1t is made in all
sizes. from half pound to twenty-eight
pounds. Sizes above five pounds are
provided with pail and an extra cover.
so that they can be used as pail when
empty. The utility of the package is
of some moment in many parts of
South America and the West Indies
that the butter goes to. That they are
appreciated may be inferred from the
fact that have seen ladies use them to
boil laces in. We send the very finest
butter and also the poorest, according
to the demand. In some parts of the
West Indies butter is too expensive
and the inhabitants use lard, while
portions of Venezuela. Costa Rics and
San Domingo take the best butter that
that they can get The export of but
ter to the tropics is speciality in the
hands of two or three houses, while the
European trade is scattered among a
large number. We send butter to En-
gland and Germany in the original
packages. A good quality is called for,
but the high price of best creamery
keeps it at home, and only the fair
grades reach the other side. A few
years ago refrigerator compartments
were put in all the large steamers, but
they were too expensive and have
nearly all been removed. Now ship
pers wait for cool weather and take
their chances. The oleomargarine
scare hurt our butter trade in England.
out that is over now. and the bad sea-
son in Denmark and ireland has made
the demand active. IN. 7. Mail and
Express
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FUNNY MARK TWAIN.
The First Lecture Advertised by the Then
Obscure American Humorist.

The First Lecture Advertised by the Then
Obscure American Hunorist.
twenty-five years ago, when | frs
went to Carson" said a well-known
gentleman of that city at downtown
hotel, Mark Twsin was just beginning
to come to the front as humorist. He
was a quiet, gentlemanly sort of a
fellow, who could tell good story and
take his liquid rotations with the boys
and not show it much, even if he would
drink all day.
''In those early days most any sort of
an entertainment brought out big
crowd, and when it was announced one
day that Mark was to deliver a lecture,
for the benefit of something or other, at
the Episcopal church, it was understood
from the start that there would be Il
perfect crush.
''Well, Mark assembled the steps into
the pulpit about eight o'clock, there
being whole lot of the boys and young
women, friends of his, as well as a good
many old people in front. Mark made
a very polite bow. and then unfolded a
gigantic roll of brown paper. People
thought at first it was big map, but
1T turned out to be his lecture written
on great sheets of grocers' brown
paper, with an ordinary grocers' mark
ing-brush. After his bow he turned
his back around to the audience and
craned his head up to the lamp. and
thus read from the big sheets. as though
1t would be impossible for him to see
any other way.
1.-The lecture was on The Future of
Nevada and was the funniest thing /
ever heard. He pvophesied the great
era OF prosperity that was before us
and sought to encourage us reside nts
OF the sagebrush region by foretelling
what appeared to be Golconda-like
tales of impossible mineral discoveries.
Right on the heels of it, however, came
the marvellous discoveries of Virginia
City, and then we thought he wasn't
so far off in his humorous predictions.
Many time have / thought of that
lecture of Marx Twain. 1t ought to
have been published. have read all
his books, and I never saw any thing
in any Of them better than this. San
francisco ESansiaer.
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SALTWATER DAY.
An Old New Jersey Festival That Il Rap
idly Going Out.

idly Going Out.
The custom of observing Saltwater
Day is SO old that it is supposed to be
of Dutch origin; but long before the
Dutch came to New Jersey-the State
in which the day IS celebrated-the In
dians had custom which might very
well have furnished the model. 1t is Il
fact established in history that the New
jersey Indians were in the periodical
habit of assembling in the neighbor-
hood of the salt water for the purpose
of feasting upon oysters, and the gath
ering and eating of oysters was one of
the chief features of Saltwater Day OBJ
served among the Monmouth County
farmers in later years. Before oysters
became private property. and when
there were natural beds of them along
the Jersey shore. farmers living within
twenty or thirty miles felt keen oys-
ter hunger about the first of every Au-
gust. and on Saltwater Day, which oc-
ours at this season, the beds were made
to suffer. They suffered SO muca that the
New Jersey Legislature finally passed
law refraining people from taking
oysters by any means except the I'M
supplemented feet and hands, SO that
for several years previous to the time
when oysters ceased TO be public prop
erty the farmers on Saltwater Day
could obtain this delicate food only by
"treading" it; that is, by working the
oysters from the bottom, and skillfully
bringing them to the surface with theiI
toes.
South Amboy used to be a favorite
place of gathering on Saltwater Day,
and so lately as five years ago as many
as one hundred tent-top wagons brought
in their loads of people from the back
lying farms to assist in this celebration.
At South Amboy the festivities are
concluded in a single day, but
at other placcs-and notably at Point
Pleasant, or Sea Girt, as it is now
called. a part of the village OF
Squan-three days are devoted to
them. OF course at these festivals at
the edge of the sea there have come to
be other joys than the joy of eating
oysters. Bathing. dancing and miscel-
laneous feaSting are to be reckoned
among the delights of Saltwater Day.
There are stores of cold fowl, sand
witches. homemade pies. cider and pink
lemonade, and some of the wagon-tops
keep the sun of from a keg or demi-
john of apple-jack. The bathing suits
worn by the farmers and their wives
and daughters are homemade. the
same as the pies. and are commendable
for their comfort and seryiceability
rather than their fit.
But TIE observance of Saltwater
Day is not what it used to be. Rail-
roads have brought the sea and the
oysters nearer to the farmers, and the
season for the celebration is largely
gone. The colored people still observe
the day with considerable fervor at
Long Branch, but the festival. speaking
generally, is one which is rapidly going
Out-Rdrper's Weekly.
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how tn Rednce Your E.nense..

You can do it easily, and you will not have
to deprive yourself Of single comfort; on
the contrary, you will enjoy life more than
ever. How can you accomplish this resultl
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you lose your appetite, and become bilious
and constipated, and therefore low-spirited,
don't rush OIL to the family physician for a
prescription, or, On the other hand, wait
until you are sick abed before doing any
thing at all; but just go to the druggists
and for twenty-five cents get supply of DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Take
them as directed, and our word for it, your
unpleasant symptoms will disappear as if by
magic, you will have no big doctors bill to
pay, and everybody interested Except the
DOCTOR will feel happy.
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REALISTIC ADVENTURE.
An Incident from the Early Life OF Nov.
rI,st w. ID. HOMelIs.


As the dusk was setting in on beau
tiful autumnal day about thirty-seven
years ago, a man and boy We're driv-
ing a cow along a Country road in
Ohio. They had come a long distance
and were weary; but though the boy
limped, the conversation did not flag as
they trudged along.
They were evidently not farmers;
both had the appearance of living d
city life, but had they been observed,
the things they were saying, and not
their looks, would have attracted at
tention; for they were talking of Ger
vantes and Shakespeare.
The cow needed much urging, and it
was late at night when they reached
some white-limbed sycamores beside
the tail-race of grist-mill on the Lit
tie Miami river, on the other side of
which was the small log-ca5in in which
they lived A question then arose AS
to how they should get the COW across.
They did not know the depth of
the water, but they knew it to DO
cold, and they did not care to swim
it The elder wanted the boy to
run up under the sycamores to the saw
mill, cross the head-race there, and
come back to receive the cow on the
other side OF the tail-race. Bat with
all his literature, the boy was young
enough to be superstitious. and afraid
of the dark; and though the elder
urged him to 20, he would not force
him. They could see the lights in tho
cabin twinkling cheerfully, and they
shouted to those within, but no one
heard them. They called and called
in vain. and were answered only by
the cold rush of the tail-race, the rustic
of sycamore leaves, and the homesick
lowing of the COW.
They thea determined to driver her
across from the shore, and then to run
up to the saw-mill and down the other
bank, so as to catch her as she reached
it When tl.ey came there. she was not
to be found, however; she had Instant y
turned again, and during the night she
made her way back to the town from
which they had brought her.
The lOg-cabin was n small one, with
a corn field of eighty acres behind it,
and II was nearly a quarter of a CEN
fury old. The boy who entered it after
this adventure was William Dean How
ellis, and the man was his father, who
had recently brought his family from
Dayton to take charge of the saw-mill
and grist-mill on the river. The Incl
dent illustrates the simplicity of the
early life of one who has since become
the foremost American novelist. Will
lam II. RldsinG, in ST. Nicholas.
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Two Rich Cattle Queens.

The richest widow in Colorado was
the wife of the late John w. Tiff, who
was known some years ago rs the cat
tie king of Colorado. 1liff left about
10000 head of cattle. and it is said
that his widow manages his estate as
well rs any business man could. She
went to Colorado as sewing-machine
agent, though she came of q wealthy
family and could have remained home
doing nothing. She there met lift and
married him. and doubt not the ex-
perience she obtained in connection
with the sewing-machine aids her in
the management of her fortune. Speak
ing of cattle, there is a cattle queen in
Texas, near Corpus Christi-Mrs.
Rogers-said to be worth $1,000, 600,
and who has many times as much stock
as Job had in his most prosperous days.
Her husband is a preacher, but Mrs.
Rogers manages the business. She
sells the stock herself, buys all the
supplies, and can ride horse as well
as any of the many cowboys whom she
has in her employ.--BOston Traceler.
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Is good thing to get, and the man who
wins it by superior skill, or by an unex-
pected turn of Fortunes wheel, is to be con-
graduated. But he who escapes from the
clutches Of that dread monster, COnsump-
ton, and wins back health and happiness, is
far more fortunate. The chances Of win
ming $4,000 are small, but every consump-
tive may be absolutely sure of recovery, if
he takes DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery in time. For all scrofulOus diseases
Consumption is one Of them, it is an un-
failing remedy. All druggists.
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blood and thunder" novels are
undoubtedly bad for boys, but it is
curious fact that many strong-minded
men seek their intellectual recreation
in such literature. The late Prof.
Spencer F. Baird used to take up
''yellow back" after he had gone
through a great deal of trying mental
exertion. He said such reading rested
him as nothing else could.
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CONSUMPTION. Wasting Diseases, and
General Debility. Doctors disagree as to
the relative value of Cod Liver Oil and
and flesh, the other giving nerve power, and
acting as a tonic to the digestive and entire
system. But in Scott's Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil with Hypophosphites the two are
combined, and the effect is wonderful
Thousands who have derived no permanent
benefit from other preparations have been
cured by this. SCOTS Emulsion is perfect
ly palatable and is easily digested by those
who can not tolerate plain Cod Liver Oil
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She Couldn't Understand It.

"What in the world has happened to you
since the last time I saw youl" asked one
lady Of another when they met on the street
the other day; az can't understand it. Then
you were pale, haggard and low-spirited,
and l remember you said that you hardly
cared whether you lived or died. To-day
you look ever so much younger, and it is
very evident from your beaming face that
your low spirits have taken flight" Eyes,
indeed" was the reply; "and shall tell
you what drove them awayl 1t was DIR.
martyr to functional arrangement until /
began taking the Prescription Now am
as well as ever was in my life. No woman
who suffers as l did, ought to let an hour pass
before procuring this wonderful remedy"
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Needless Alarm

Is experienced by some fdgety people OBJ
servant of unusual paleness in their counte-
nances, who experience discomfort in the
region of the stomach or liver, or who pass
a restless night or two. These are small
ailments, capable, indeed, of aggravation by
neglect, but easily removable at the start by
the fine assistant of digestion, assimilation
and sleep, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Use
this pure remedy, so admirably adapted to
family emergencies. Malaria and kidney
complaints are relieved by it.
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a Pitiable Situation.
Nubbs-Dubbs called me liar this
morning.

Nubbs-Dubbs called me a liar this
morning.
Bubbs-Well. what did you do?
M haven't done any thing yet
B.-Well, what are you going to do?
N.-That's just the question. You
see 1 have been up at the lakes for a
couple of weeks, and while 1 was there
1 sent several letters to Dubbs telling
him how many trout / had caught.
The party was with came home this
morning and Dubbs had a talk with
them, see?
Bot course 1 see. It's mighty
hard case, but under the circumstances
l think you had better let the matter
drop.
N. with deep sigh)-I guess 1 will
have to.-BostOn Courier.
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lkHHA
ATS
YOU?

Do You feel dan. languid. low-sprited, life
leSs and iQdescribablY miserable, both physf-
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mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent
headaches blurred eyesight, floating specks
before the eyes. nervous proStratiOn or ex-
haustion irritability of temper, hot tushes,
alternating with chilly sensations, sharpt
feet. drowsiness after meals, wakefulness, or
disturbed and undressing sleep, constant,
indescribable feeling OF dread, or or impend-
ing calamityI
IF you have 81, or any considerable number
Of these symptoms, you are suffering ron ron
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with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more
complicated your disease has become, the
greater the number and diversity of symp-
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DR.. Pieree's Golden Medical Dis
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this wonderful medicine has gained great
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OLD pill boxes are spread over the land by
suffering humanity. What mas of sick
ening, disgusting medicine the poor stomach
has to contend with. Too much strong medi-
cine. Prickly Ash Bitters is rapidly and
surely taking the place of all this class of
drugs, and in curing all the ills arising from
disordered condition of the liver, kidneys,
stomach and bowels.
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Jasper Caller, near Fabyan's, has
one of the rarest animals ever seen in
the White Mountains. 1t is a white
porcupine, a big one. too. weighing
twenty five pounds. and already so tame
that it eats f'7m its owners hand.
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OWING to their entire freedom from injuri
Gus drugs, "Tansilrs Punch sc. Cigars ar
the most popular in the world.
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THE shine of cheap summer hotel boot
black admits Of no refection--HoteI Mad.
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FRAZER Axle GREASE is the best in the
world-win wear twice as long as any other.
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IT is pretty hard to prevent sparkling on
the electric street car hne.-Scrdnton Truth.
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No, YOU may not understand why saw log
is like crank but if you look close you will
see that they are both of their base-Dul,sth
PGrd0rapher.
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THERE is sex in fruit; haven't you heard
of mandate?-Tsxds Siftipgs.
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ONLY the pretty girl can be saucy with i'm
punity.-SomerviUe Journal
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THE rag business in Eastern cities Il said
10 be very perceptibly picking up
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The rag and- old-iron man is something OF
political economist He knows all about
buy-metalim Washington Post
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TIE gambler has an exceedingly come
play SAINT air Washington Critic.
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FENDERsoS's Oldest boy passed his vacation
at beach resort, sparkling young lady who
read Browning on the sands every morning.
He came home thoroughly sum- rowninged
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A Prize of 100000

MINISTERS are about the only servants
who do not have Sunday out"-Rarper's
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TIE dissipated actor who lives in garrett
has some cause to rail at dram attic art
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ALTERNATING mammas going away for
the summer months naturally took their
daughters to the Grand Union-Hdrper's
Razdr.
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RELIEF is immediate, and cure sure.
Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. so cents
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Does he speak French?" "Yes. enough
o make himself misunderstood "-PhiLa-
klphia Star.
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AN egg PLAINTIFF original investment in
q hennery.-Harper' Bdzar.
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CHOLERA mixture-cucumbers, green
apples, etc.-HGTper's BdzGr.
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HORSE racing Is an enter-prizing occupa-
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A NOD AFFAIR." silent bid at an auction
Goldell DdVs